We have currently had 12 consecutive months of record breaking global temperatures, with an average of 1.63°C above the pre-industrial levels. Good times.

Trickle-down socialism.

Ooh baby, this is just a tiny part in how terrifying they actually are for the open web. Their implementation of manifest V3, platform for browser extensions (that they basically force every other browser to use), along with the deprecation of V2-based extensions (starting this month) is straight up authoritarian. In short, they entirely remove blocking of webRequest and Event pages (user-side background scripts), among other things. This will essentially kill open ad blockers (like uBlock origin) and let them control the supported ones (like AdBlock), meaning we will have ads from advertisers who pay the fee purposely let through.

We have known about this coming change and its implications for 5+ years.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#issuecomment-496009417

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Meanwhile Firefox, who would also have to implement it for cross-compatibility, will not remove those critical features, as well as will keep support for V2 extensions. This is only one aspect in which Firefox is committed to user privacy, security, and control. I would highly recommend Firefox to everyone, including the Android version.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manifest-v2-march-2024-update/

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

I gave a number of real life use cases where it would solve real problems. There are so many more, especially "boring" ones like official documents, research, and medical records that would benefit from it tremendously. Blockchain does not equal crypto, but they complement each other really well.

Proof of stake could make the thing not too environmentally damaging but it's been years that major blockchains are saying they will implement it the next year

What do you mean, Ethereum is pos.

I AM NOT SHILLING CRYPTO IN ANY WAY OKAY THANK YOU

With that out of the way, those are not intrinsic qualities of either. The fundamentals on which every shitcoin and the bored ape garbage were sold to the public are still very strong. This is like saying "online shopping is horrible" in 2004 - technically not incorrect, but very shortsighted. While the proof of work protocol (mining for it to function and who mines more is the truth) is unsustainable, proof of stake (who holds more is the truth) and mixed ones are fundamentally amazing. Imagine stablecoins pegged to indexes of international currencies. BRICS coin, for example. With smart contracts (rules built into the transaction itself) and being practically legitimate international currencies it opens up so many possibilities. Transparency and easy comparisons in payments - salaries, rents, goods and services. Immutability - you can't just whack a person and steal the deed to their house. The "chain" part of blockchain - clear history of ownership of assets, no more "I accidentally bought a stolen car/house". And eventually the contracts can be made complex enough to cover most interpersonal transactions.

And the same thing for nfts. Especially now, in the rapidly exploding era of unethical AI art, music, etc. Artists could easily sell/lease rights for their work, including for it to be a basis for generative models. It's not limited to digital products - whatever you want to to confirm ownership of can be tagged with one-way encrypted signatures baked into nfts.

So both are great technologies that can still be improved on a lot. But it's just that the ways in which they're used today are almost exclusively rugpull bubble dogshit.

That's neat and all, but especially considering the eventual outcome this has nothing on the legendary Soviet faceted glass. Autogenerated auto translated subs on the video are pretty good.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Technically they operate with the same model of taking a profit from others' activity.

People use them regardless, for many different types of content, they're primary platforms. Patreon is a secondary one, pretty much nobody would just go to Patreon and pay for a random subscription to discover someone's content. But with the primary ones if a certain person was banned from there, subscribers would still keep using them for all the other ones.

Anyway, I'm not really disagreeing, and it's speculation either way. For all we know, States might straight up illegalize commie content online, moving all of it, including payments, underground.

The idea that corporations will allow free speech because it's in their financial interest to do so just doesn't conform with what we observe happening in reality.

There is a fundamental difference between a business selling a product and one that simply takes a part of profits from others' activity. Creators don't have to take money through Patreon, they can choose any other platform, and for the subscribers it doesn't make a real difference. Quite the opposite, if a different service was to take a lower fee (and put more money in the pocket of creators), or be more explicitly in line with their content, then people would be even more eager to support them there instead.

And how long before those corporations drop them?

Do you mean Patreon and Substack? That's almost definitely not happening. These platforms exist because they, to a good extent, allow for freedom of expression. Technologically they're nothing to write home about (and Patreon video player is actual dogshit) and could easily be replicated and replaced. So it would be huge for them to lose chunks of creators' revenues if those were to leave over political differences.

I can only say from the experience of my centrist liberal friend who was getting a PhD in math in Western Europe, the people there were very very conservative, both socially and academically, to a point where he quit it a year or two in and went for an entirely different career.

Crowds gathered on the square in front of the 14-story hotel to celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union. Now, Hotel Ukraine is up for auction as part of an effort to sell off some large state assets to help fund the military and bolster an economy

Fucking hell man. If this was a movie, you'd call it lazy writing. Literally 90s 2.0, and they're even making communism the bad guy again somehow.

I'm saying this as someone who went (and is still going) through the same experience of not fitting anywhere, including my own head, incapable of hard labor, and for the longest time unable to land a spot to work with my brains. The only thing that really matters is that you do well by yourself. If you're not okay, you're definitely not freeing the colonies, not helping Palestinians or bringing about the revolution.

There is nothing fundamentally broken in you. People are very different, but the conditions of the world force everyone to be the same, and then shame you for not trying hard enough if you're not. There absolutely is a place for you in the world and lives of others. I can't give you a solution, but my advice is to be more open, with yourself and others, and to learn to ask for and accept help. Coworkers, family, friends, government, mutual support orgs, whomever. It might be extremely difficult. But you're not alone in any of this, and people are built to work together. You've done a good job getting this far.

Within about a week of an event occurring, climate scientists can now describe the role that human-caused climate change played in making a recent heat event more likely or intense.

Scientists: yep, this was anthropogenic. This one as well. Ooh, dang, this one too and it was a biggie. And this one is not! Oh, wait, on second look... At least the system works, eh.

https://annas-archive.org/md5/60c47f431aebcedb28a124aa1ab6c980

Here's an update - at today's pride event pigs actually set up a checkpoint outside and check IDs and military documents of everyone trying to get in. You are very correct. They readily jumped on this opportunity to go back twenty years in how blatant they are in their oppression of queer people.

In half a country abortions are borderline or actually illegal, and in the ever growing number of states trans people are deprived of healthcare and human dignity. Idk what veil they could hide behind at this point.

Absolutely not. If you like streaming - by all means, do it, it's fun, and it even might eventually take off. But it is an industry where 99% of people don't make any money after years and years put into it. Definitely do not start with the expectation to make a living. Any other form of content creation has better odds of working out. And it's almost always better to move into streaming after amassing some audience that way.

Gay glorification, is the cornerstone of US globalism. With women, minorities, etc... not just gays.

Bro I fucking wish

Originally it's just a beach/surfing brand and, well, lifestyle. But pigs and military co-opted it as a kind of thin blue line symbol, since it's word play on "assault life".

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